FOX just announced that they will be scheduling Joss Whedon’s new show, “Dollhouse” as the lead-in to “24″ on Monday nights in 2009. I think I just had a Jossgasm. And as if THAT news wasn’t cool enough, the first promo picture of the cast of “Dollhouse” is out!

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AAAAND as if THAT wasn’t cool enough - Click here to view the Dollhouse Trailer!

According to the Hollywood Reporter, FOX has announced their Fall lineups. I’ll paste it in here, but frankly, I am head-over-heels in love with the Dollhouse/24 goodness. Good news for Joss too as I can guarantee he’ll have some stellar ratings considering 24 fans have been waiting and waiting and waiting for the new season. It’s been very Soprano-esque. Anyway, here is FOX’s lineup:

MONDAY 8:00-9:00 PM
TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES9 9:00-10:00 PM PRISON BREAK

TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM HOUSE
9:00-10:00 PM FRINGE

WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM BONES
9:00-9:30 PM ‘TIL DEATH
9:30-10:00 PM DO NOT DISTURB

THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM THE MOMENT OF TRUTH
9:00-10:00 PM KITCHEN NIGHTMARES

FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th GRADER?
9:00-10:00 PM DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS!

SATURDAY
8:00-8:30 PM COPS
8:30-9:00 PM COPS
9:00-10:00 PM AMERICA’S MOST WANTED: AMERICA FIGHTS BACK
11:00 PM-Midnight MADtv
Midnight-12:30 AM TALKSHOW WITH SPIKE FERESTEN
SUNDAY 7:00-8:00 PM
THE OT (NFL post-game) 8:00-8:30 PM THE SIMPSONS
8:30-9:00 PM KING OF THE HILL
9:00-9:30 PM FAMILY GUY
9:30-10:00 PM AMERICAN DAD J

JANUARY

9:00-9:30 PM ‘TIL DEATH
9:30-10:00 PM DO NOT DISTURB

9:00-10:00 PM AMERICA’S MOST WANTED: AMERICA FIGHTS BACK

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There is a lot going on in TV land this week. From a new Bones on Monday to a new Hell’s Kitchen last night (which has been TIVO’d to be viewed over lunch today ) to a new Wife Swap and Top Model tonight, to Smallville and Survivor tomorrow night, and finally - FINALLY a new Moonlight on Friday. That show’s been on hiatus forever and it was just starting to grow on me too.

Now, I know there are only a small amount of shows that I really talk about in this blog, and that my tastes run toward the rather nerdy stuff. I wish I had the time to get into a wider range of shows, but I’ll do my best to pass on the things I hear.

But speaking of nerdy, I have read that Joss Whedon’s new show, Dollhouse, began filming today! Excitement abounds! And former Angel actress, Amy Acker, has joined the cast. She played Fred/Illyria on that show. I’m ecstatic about that. Now we just have to hope FOX doesn’t cancel the show just when it hits its stride.

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Whedonites rejoice! Joss is coming back to the telly. On FOX no less. I’m wondering if I should be worried. The same network that canceled the marvelousness that was Firefly is now giving Joss another shot with another sci-fi show? Did they grow a brain? Did they kick themselves for canceling Firefly when they saw it become a cult classic that shows no sign of stopping?

I don’t suppose we’ll ever know for sure. But if I’m being completely honest, I don’t really care about the “how” of it. I just care that I get to see another product of Joss’ fertile imagination. Yes, I love Joss Whedon and anything he creates. Don’t care who knows it either.

ANYWAY… So the new show is called “Dollhouse” and will star Eliza Dushku (Faith from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.) Sci-fi website Io9 has the scoop on the first official description of the show:

The drama stars Dushku as Echo, a member of a group of men and women who are imprinted with different personalities for different assignments. In between tasks they are mind-wiped, living like children in Dollhouse, a futuristic dorm/lab. A group of people, known as “Actives” (or “Dolls”), have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas and hired out for particular jobs, crimes, fantasies and occasional good deeds. When not imprinted, the Actives live, childlike and unremembering, in a hidden facility nicknamed “The Dollhouse”. Although the Actives are ostensibly volunteers, the operation is highly illegal, and under constant threat from a determined federal agent on one end and an insane rogue Active on the other. The story hinges around a greater and more subtle threat: Echo, a female Active, begins, in her mind-wiped state, to become self-aware.

Sounds pretty cool and weird and interesting to me. There are a ton of rumours floating around about the show involving casting and whether Whedon will use other Buffy alumni. I’ll keep you posted.

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